Long gone are the times of monthly Google PageRank updates, Google dances, and checking Google data centers - and to be honest, I somewhat miss those days. But the question I see asked a lot is how ...

An Ex-Google software engineer commented in a Hacker News discussion, discussing how Google works. Along the way he mentioned that Google no longer used the original PageRank algorithm. The Hacker ...

A former Google engineer named Jonathan Tang (LinkedIn profile) who worked at Google on search between 2009 and 2014 said Google hasn't used PageRank since 2006. He said this in a Hacker News thread ...

Google's search engine fame came in part from its algorithm that rates Web pages based on links from other pages. Microsoft thinks people provide a better ranking method. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Rand Fishkin knows how valuable it is for a Web site to rank high in a Google search. But even this president of a search engine optimization firm was blown away by a proposal he received at a search ...

The formula Google uses to rank the resulting Web pages from a user's query. Along with the PageRank system that was Google's major contribution to evaluating website importance due to popularity, ...

Representative Ted Lieu couldn't contain himself after hearing his colleagues in Congress whinge to Google CEO Sundar Pichai about how the search engine was biased against conservatives. "If you want ...

Google’s PageRank is one of the metrics that started it all. It was present in that very first research paper, that laid a foundation for Google’s entire ranking system. PageRank figures out the ...

Every year, Google's PageRank algorithm gets a little smarter. No matter how solid your website's content is, you simply can't rank anymore unless your website's technical details are equally flawless ...

Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller – in a rare case of annoyance – said that any SEO advice mentioning “link juice” is not to be trusted. Is it or not? I wondered about the context and doubted ...

You probably know Google for search and Android, but it also invented foundational technology that now runs the web, the ...

In response to Times articles, the search giant is changing its algorithm, part of a major shift in how Google polices harmful content. By Kashmir Hill and Daisuke Wakabayashi For many years, the ...